diff --git a/gson/pom.xml b/gson/pom.xml
index f3aac47..00e8d84 100644
--- a/gson/pom.xml
+++ b/gson/pom.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
          <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
             <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <version>2.7.0</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
             <!--  as we are using gson -->
             <exclusions>
@@ -100,12 +100,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-nop</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.30</version>
+            <version>1.7.36</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
         <properties>
-        <gson.version>2.8.7</gson.version>
+        <gson.version>2.9.1</gson.version>
     </properties>
 </project>
diff --git a/jackson2/pom.xml b/jackson2/pom.xml
index 8529259..2021080 100644
--- a/jackson2/pom.xml
+++ b/jackson2/pom.xml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
             <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
-            <version>2.6.0</version>
+            <version>2.7.0</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
             <!--  as we are using jackson -->
             <exclusions>
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>slf4j-nop</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.30</version>
+            <version>1.7.36</version>
             <optional>true</optional>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
@@ -137,11 +137,11 @@
     <properties>
         <!-- 2.7.x hase Java 7 baseline, but is compiled with Java 6 support, cft. https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.7.
         With Jackson 2.8, Java 7 languages features will be allowed -->
-        <jackson2.version>2.12.5</jackson2.version>
+        <jackson2.version>2.13.4</jackson2.version>
     </properties>
     <profiles>
       <profile>
-        <id>jkd-12-compile</id>
+        <id>java12</id>
         <activation>
           <jdk>[12,)</jdk>
         </activation>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
                 <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
-                <version>2.4.0-b180830.0438</version>
+                <version>4.0.0</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
       </profile>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 98e244d..9d74f0a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
    <parent>
        <artifactId>turbine-parent</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.apache.turbine</groupId>
-       <version>11</version>
+       <version>12-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <relativePath />
    </parent>
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>